| Abstract Title: | Accreditation of emission laboratory according to the european legislation |
| Presenter Name: | Mr Milena Parvanova |
| Company/Organisation: | Executive Environment Agency |
| Country: | Bulgaria |
Abstract Information :
According to the Environmental Protection Act, the Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW) is in charge of organizing and conducting the monitoring of the environmental components including air quality and emission measurements, which is of great importance for the human health and sustainable development.
The Executive Environment Agency /EEA/ is established at the Ministry of Environment and Water and carries out the management of the National System for Environmental monitoring. The Agency is a National Reference Centre for the European Environment Agency.
A number of European Union Directives in the field of emission control have been transposed and implemented over the past ten years. The existing Bulgarian legislation transposes very well the EU requirements in the field of the emission measurements.
The Executive Environment Agency is the responsible organisation for assessment of the following air emissions sources: household heating, road transport, other mobile sources and machinery, waste treatment and disposal.
The air emission monitoring is carried out by the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water and EEA (including 7 laboratories). From another part, the air emission monitoring is carried out by the owner of the enterprise (periodical or continuous air emission measurements).
The Air Quality laboratory is engaged in the management and execution of the regular measurements of priority air pollutants in the ambient air and in the emissions. At the moment the laboratory is accredited as a testing laboratory according to EN ISO/IEC 17025 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories".
Regarding the accreditation, the main introduced elements of quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) are the following: Harmonisation of measurements methods and ISO/CEN standardization, Method validation, Type approval of instruments, Reference materials, Intercomparison exercises, Uncertainty of measurements.
